Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-19
70 WE'D AN ANARCHIST,
A Morbidly Silly Chicago Girl Iufatu.
ated with Spies, the Con.
demned Anarchist.

n ated with Spies, the Con. :
l. demned Anarchist.
i FOOLISH WOMAN.
l. A Miss Van Zandt About to Marry
e Convicted Murderer.
9 PHfsBURG, January 17.-Upon the re
: ceiptiof the Associated Press dispatche
: : from Chicago stating that Mrs. John Al
8 thur, the aunt Of Miss Nina Van Zandt
II had telegraphed to the marriage clerk for
: bidding him issuing license for the mar
riageof the young lady to Spies, the an
arcbist, a CdhmercialGazette reperte
called upon thos lady at her residence i,
Oakland to ascertain the attitude of Mis-
: Van zandt's friends in regard to her cours
OF conduct. To the reporter she said: &.
, tspent nearly the entire Sabbath on m,
, knees in prayer f7r the infatuated girl, anl
when opened the paper this morning ant
saw that Mr.. Eugene 6eegur, the Chicago
, marriage license clerk, had refused licens,
so that she could not marry, thanket
. God for what seemed
l
and the next thing did was to send tele
gram to Mr.. Seegur, thanking him for hil
manliness and courage in daring to refuse
the license. The first intimation which the
relatives had Of the affair was the an
nouncement made in the papers on Satur
day morning last. The shock to Mrs. Ar
thur and her distinguished father and
mother can be readily imagined. especially
as Mrs. Van Zandt's mother, who is the
only sister OF Mrs. Arthur, had been visit.
ing her parents and sister just two weeks
previous, and with the exception Of iokingly
remarking that Nina expected to marry
some nice young man in the spring. had
made nothing known, and had not given
the slightest hint iE the true direction. On
reading the news, so great was the prostra-
ton OF Mrs. Arthur's family that Mr.. VIM.
B. Clark was obliged to write to Van Zandt
message she wished to send. The letter
was mailed by 10 o'clock Saturday morn
| ing, imploripg them
TO PREVENT THE WEDDING.
This was closely followed by another. and
the Van Zandt family were informed that
henceforth they were not to be considered
| in the light of relations. Every connection,
socially and financially, was dissolved for
ever, and Miss Nina was utterly disinher.
tied. "She will receive no more than our
dog living there on the rug. Every dollar
will be bequeathed to charitable purpo.
sea-" said Mrs. Arthur, as she wiped the
tears from her eyes. This morning a let
ter was received from Mrs. Van Zandt from
Chicago, written before the receipt of those
cent from Pittsburg, in which she in
forms her relatives of Nina's approaching
marriage to Spies, the anarchist, and in
vites them to be present at the ceremony,
which is to be performed on Thursday in
the Jail in Chicago; adding, also, that she
and Mr.. Van Zandt could find no fault in
the man and had given their full consent to
the nuptials, and that she hoped her friends
would not worry themselves. "This letter."
continued Mrs. Arthur, (which shows Nina's |
parents to be as highly blamed as Nina her |
self, only made father and all of us more
firm in the determination to disown the
family forever. l fear" continued Mrs.
Arthur, ''that it is his bright way OF talk
ing that has led her into this. She never /
saw Spies until that day in the court room,
then she probably visited him in jail, and |
an exchange Of words and sentiments led |
to this. cut we cannot account for that
oooarLErE 1NFAruAT1ON
unless she and her father and mother have
all gone clean crazy, as we think they have.
If Nina is an atheist now she certainly was
not last summer, as she contemplated
Joining the church." Mr.. Clarke will posi-
lively refuse to have anything more to do
with the family. If the marriage takes
place not a dollar will be expended for
the release of the condemned Anarchists.
Mr.. Clarke is lying seriously ill ut his ele-
.ant residence in Oakland, prostrated by
he news of Miss Van Zanlt's intended
and the family fear he will not
recover. II
IN CHICAGO. II
CHICAGO, January 17.-The marriage [
license clerk, Seegur, received the following I
dispatch this afternoon from Pittsburg: II
PTTTsBURG, January 17.-Issue no license j
20 Miss Van Zandt and Spies to be mar
led. We forbid the marriage. II
MRS. JOHN ARTHUR. 3.
After reading the telegram, Seegur said: /
4 shall refer the matter to the County I
Clerk, Wulff, and act under his instruc- l
ions. Personally, do not think a license +
should be issued" " Seegur added heunder- {
stood that the lady sending the telegram s
s Miss Van Zandt's grandmother and is &
quite wealthy.
The interview with Mrs. Arthur tele- '
raphed from Pittsburg disinheriting her t
md telling OF the prostration of her grand L
ather, was read to Miss Van Zandt this
'vening. The young lady exhibited con-
idera BILE passion, saying, II consider it an
L.
consider that message an unwarrantableI (
and it will not deter me in the
east" Miss Nina limited that she was l
about to publish a book over her maiden 8
lame which was to be history of the life
If Spies, written by him and prefaced by
herself. =
Clerk Seegur. who refused to issue the
license, says that Miss Van Zandt, in his y
opinion, is the victim of the ready wit OF
Spies and his counsel that Miss Van Zandt
lid not love him nor Spies her. but that
he real affinity is between Miss Van Zandt,
Who has nine dogs, and Mrs. Capt. Black,
Who has sixty dogs. He thought the object t
,f it all was to create sympathy for Spies I
md provoke the sympathy of the Gov {
rnor. Clerk Seegur said he should go to
Van Zandt and represent the matter to I
i'm in this light. In thus dragging down I
20 his own disgrace an innocent girl Spies {
howed bimself lat king in all the instincts {
II honor and manhood. Il
THE LATEST.
CHICAGO, January 1S.-Miss Van Zandt, 8
he young woman announced to marry the !
Anarchist Spies, took out a =
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